#683 Diabetes Rodeo

May 17, 2022Scott Benner

Megan has type 1 diabetes and loves a good rodeo.

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Scott Benner 0:00
Hello friends, and welcome to episode 683 of the Juicebox Podcast.

On this episode of The Juicebox Podcast, I'll be speaking with Megan. She is an adult living with type one diabetes, and she has rodeo stories, among other things. She actually has two sisters who also live with type one. We'll find out more about it on today's episode of The Juicebox Podcast. While you're listening, please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, always consult a physician before making any changes to your health care plan, or becoming bold with insulin. If you're a US resident who has type one, or is the caregiver of someone with type one, you have the opportunity to support people with type one diabetes and this podcast by going to T one D exchange.org. Forward slash juicebox. There you join the registry fill out the survey. And in fewer than 10 minutes, you've helped the podcast and people with type one with the simple answers to very easy questions. It's just data that they need, but they need you to go answer the question so they get the data. T one D exchange.org. Forward slash juicebox completely anonymous 100% HIPAA compliant this show is sponsored today by the glucagon that my daughter carries. G voc hypo Penn, find out more at G voc glucagon.com. Forward slash juicebox. I just received Ardens on the pod five order from us med it's a terrific place to get your diabetes supplies, head over to us med.com forward slash juicebox or call 888-721-1514 To get your free benefits check.

Megan 2:05
Okay, it's kind of surreal, because I've heard your voice for so long. It's weird that you're actually talking to me this time.

Scott Benner 2:12
Well, are you worried that it's a voice in your head because I can say something specific to you? I know your name is Meghan. A voice and I guess a voice in your head but no, you're Meghan as well. Right. Hold on. Let's think just something I know that your boy, I don't know anything. The voice in your head. Wouldn't I could be a voice in your head. Megan. Oh, well, right. Live with it. Yep. All right, Guy whenever you're ready, go ahead.

Megan 2:35
Hi, my name is Megan. I am a type one diabetic who've been diabetic for 26 years. I also have two sisters that are type ones. And we just get through this life together.

Scott Benner 2:47
You have any other siblings besides those two sisters?

Megan 2:51
Yes, we have two brothers that are not type ones

Scott Benner 2:54
who see your parents make female type ones not male type ones.

Megan 2:59
Exactly.

Scott Benner 3:00
Do your brothers have any other autoimmune issues?

Megan 3:03
Nope. They're perfectly healthy. Bastards. Right. lucky then.

Scott Benner 3:10
Wow, that's interesting. Does your mom have any?

Megan 3:13
Nope, nobody in either side of our family has any really issues. They had done a lot of studies at the beginning when the first two are diagnosed because my oldest sister's 19 years older than I am. And so when they were diagnosed, it was three days apart. They had done a lot of studies trying to figure out like why it was just those two, they first kind of thought about maybe it was every other child. Well, then after my middle sister, my brother was born and he wasn't in type one. But my mom had lost one between the two of them. So they were like, Okay, well, it's not that. And my mom talks about how when she was pregnant with my younger brother. She said, I pray that he was a boy and wouldn't be a type one because I couldn't handle three of them. And then three years later, here I come a girl type one also

Scott Benner 4:08
my server to tell you that story.

Megan 4:12
Sorry,

Scott Benner 4:13
so you've had type one for 26 years. How old are you?

Megan 4:16
29 I was diagnosed when I was three. Okay.

Scott Benner 4:19
And how old is your older sister?

Megan 4:23
She's 48. So they've been they were diagnosed in 82. Wow, she was nine and then the middle sister was three. When they were diagnosed. Like I said three days apart. They ended up getting a conjoined room at the hospital. So that was probably a lot of fun for my parents.

Scott Benner 4:43
Wow. How old is your middle sister?

Megan 4:46
She is 43 Sorry, maybe

Scott Benner 4:50
you all have the same dad. Yep. Your parents are weird. I love this. Okay, it's gonna be fun. And then the brothers are Where did It just It doesn't matter. But I want to know how old are the brothers?

Megan 5:03
So that brandy or she's the oldest and then we've got a brother. That's after three years after her. Three years after her is our middle sister Kayla. Three years are 10 years later is my other brother. And then three years later is me.

Scott Benner 5:19
Wow. So basically 40 840-543-3326 or 2929. Yep. Wow. And how old are your parents? 112?

Megan 5:29
It seems like it's sometimes. I guess they feel like it but they're not. I think my dad's 72 Maybe No, kid. Really? No.

Scott Benner 5:39
Wow, they got going. And they didn't stop. Big breaks in between. Yeah.

Megan 5:45
Everyone always asked. They're like, Y'all have the same parents. Right? Yep. All the same parents. Question. Yeah. What just happened that way?

Scott Benner 5:56
Was I alright, I'm just going to ask this one last question, then I'll get off your parents, which seems like how your dad did it. He just asked the question and got off for a while. And I got back home again. So there's no family planning here. Like the idea of like, they just when babies came, they came, they make you guys on purpose? Like, what's

Megan 6:18
the last few of us? We're definitely not on purpose, but are like to think that we are the best two? I would imagine. So. I mean, we'll just go to leave it at that.

Scott Benner 6:30
What did your mom do for a living? Did you just sit around and rest her uterus? Or did you have a job? Or Wouldn't she?

Megan 6:35
She actually did have a job. She used to work in the school board. So she for a little while she was working in the lunch room. And then she moved to be a secretary at in school with kids with special needs. And then she turned into Yeah, she was a secretary, then she turned into a secretary at an elementary school. So when I went to school, my mom worked at the school. Yeah. And so it was pretty easy to go through, you know, all my type one problems with her. Only a few doors down. Cool.

Scott Benner 7:10
That's great. So all right. Do you have functionally a completely different diabetes than your older sister did? Do they mean? Like, did she have different gear and different ways to do it than you did? Did your mom have to learn diabetes? A number of times, I guess, is my question.

Megan 7:28
Um, I don't really think so. When we were younger. Now, nowadays, yes, absolutely. We all tend to it differently. We all have, you know, different ways to go about it. And we all have different agencies, for sure. So like, when, when I was diagnosed, my two big sisters were doing shots. And they were checking their blood sugar and all of this stuff. So I started doing my own shots when I was like, between four and five, just because they did it so I could do it. Which I don't know if that helped my mom or made her even more nervous. I was four years old giving myself a shot. I don't really know. But that's, you know, and I so I learned a lot from them up until I was old enough to figure out some things on my own and kind of veered away from some of the ways that they do theirs or have done them.

Scott Benner 8:28
Okay. Well, let's talk about you for a couple minutes. 26 years. That's i Five. I'm gonna guess it's 1995 said about right? Yes. Yep. Oh, wow. I'm sorry, shocked myself, because I was right. I wish that wasn't true. Okay. So 1991 That's crazy. Because when you say 26 years, I'm getting so old now. Like, that feels like 1980 to me. I don't know if that's something you launder. You probably won't understand that till you're older but so 1995 you're diagnosed you and you you're working with injections. And so are your soldiers. You're the rest of your family. What's the what's a goal? Like, do you know? Do you know what your mom was shooting for what she was trying to do? I mean, I'm assuming knock her out of her mind. But you know, like, how did she manage things?

Megan 9:24
Yes, I do. A lot of the mind was the main goal, I believe. You know, she just was trying to keep our blood sugar. I mean, back then, I feel like things have changed so much. Back then it was like you wanted your blood sugar between our what they were telling her I guess, was like 90 to 150. And if we were in there, we were good to go. If not, then we'd have to watch it to see where it was gonna go. And then we would do something about it. Which obviously Nowadays, I really don't even want to be 90 are for sure don't want to be 150. And I'm watching it every, obviously five minutes and making adjustments at all times, rather than how it was done whenever I was first diagnosed or even until I got an insulin pump, and I was in the sixth grade, like, okay, you know, so back then it was just, if it was above 150, then we drink some water, go exercise and come back and check and see if it was because I mean, you don't want to make your four year old do six shots in a day. So you're going to try something else to try to get your blood sugar down before you have to go that route.

Scott Benner 10:44
I see. And what what did you guys do for Lowe's?

Megan 10:49
Um, we just the normal like orange juice type stuff. Or just like a little candy, or Hershey Kiss, my mom is obsessed with them. And that's probably why because she had to keep them around for so long. Just to give us a little something to bring our blood sugars up.

Scott Benner 11:08
That's interesting. When did you I mean, you're talking now about yourself in the when you're talking about yourself in the present. You're talking like a person that has a CGM. So I assume you have one?

Megan 11:16
I do. Yes, I have a Dexcom.

Scott Benner 11:18
How long have you had that?

Megan 11:20
I think I've had it for about three years. Because I got it a little while before I got pregnant with my first little boy.

Scott Benner 11:29
Is that when? So I don't want to spoil things. And I also don't know the answer. But when did you like you're talking now like about keeping very specific blood sugars for yourself? Like, when did that start for you? And what got you going with that?

Megan 11:43
Um, I tried to keep it pretty steady, even on just the regular blood test. But it was when I actually got my Dexcom and could see, you know, I would the standard is, you know, you eat, you do a blood test, you know, an hour after you've eaten, and see what your blood sugar is, won't an hour after it was usually pretty good. Well, then when I got to Dexcom, it's like, oh, yeah, it's pretty good an hour after, but 20 minutes after it shooting straight up. So I guess it was when I got to Dexcom that I really started paying a lot more attention to keeping my blood sugar stable at all times, because I you know, do a blood test every couple hours. And if it was still pretty good. And you're like, oh, yeah, I've kept it this whole time. That was awesome. In reality, that is not how it was

Scott Benner 12:41
jumping up and then staying up and then probably crashing down. And you were just testing at times where it looked okay. Right. Yeah. I remember that feeling like I did. The nurse practitioner always told me to test at a certain time. And I thought, well, if I test then it's definitely going to be okay. Right. And she didn't understand why that didn't make sense to me as to what we really should understand what's happening in between, shouldn't we? And she's like, No, she's like, it's probably high. And I'm like, what, like, nobody. Nobody understands this, you know, so you get a CGM, and you start seeing it. A spike in a meal. What was your first? Like? How did you impact that?

Megan 13:24
So I was started talking with my endo a lot more about just trying to get it figured out on what because I also saw I got a Dexcom and a new pump on the same day, which maybe not wasn't a good idea. But it's fine. We we've got it figured out. So then we were working on, you know, I would call him more often and try and figure out, Hey, What settings do we need to change? And nowadays, I don't, I don't really call him, I just do. I just do whatever I think because obviously, I'm not going to make my setting change. And then my blood sugar's gonna stay 40 for four hours, and may not change back or at least bump it a little bit more. So he's pretty okay with me making some changes on my own. Just because I pay attention to it a lot more nowadays than, Oh, I'm able to pay attention to it a lot more than I was when I first started going to him.

Scott Benner 14:21
So did you like start Pre-Bolus thing? Is that how you? Did you not do that prior? And then the DEC did not?

Megan 14:27
I did not and I would I would rarely put in carbs. And I was like, Oh, I probably need two and a half units. We'll just go with that. And it was like, Oh, that probably wasn't correct. But it was. I mean, I was in college and rodeoing and always gone. So I was like, Yeah, this should work.

Scott Benner 14:48
rodeoing you said earlier? Earlier, I couldn't figure it out. You said earlier, tend to my diabetes. And I was like where did that come from? Like where does like 10 I've never heard somebody say 10 Do it like you would tend to a fire or attend to an animal. Is that where that came from? Do you think? Yeah, probably. Yeah, that's cool how long you've been riding?

Megan 15:09
Um, my entire family has my dad um, you shred bucking horses when he was younger, and then there's only the oldest sister she's the only one in our family that has not rodeoed my husband is a bull rider my brother's rope calves. I've roped My sister has it's just in the family. You know one of my uncle's owns a rodeo company. My brothers made them Super Bowl of rodeo is what they call it. This will be his 12th year and so it's just in the family. We've all done it and we all love the sport and continue to stay at the minute

Scott Benner 15:55
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PBR is that the professional? Nope. No, that's,

Megan 17:57
that's the yes, that's the professional bull riding but we're in the PRCA, which is the professional cowboys Rodeo Association.

Scott Benner 18:03
Mike, if you want to hear something weird. Sure, so I had no idea that you rodeoed or that anybody in your family did, and yesterday. So it's a little bit of a side street, it may not come to surprise to some of you. But the popularity of the podcast, I get a lot of emails from people who want me to do things. And sometimes they're amazingly odd, like and don't seem connected to anything that I really am involved in. And yesterday I got an email from PBR and they want to know if I wanted to sell tickets to rodeos on my podcast. And I just thought, wow, I just deleted it. Because first of all, what am I gonna do you know what I mean? But secondly, yeah, I was like, No, I don't want to do that Delete. And then you came on here today and said, I rodeo. And I'm like, how does a word that never comes up in my life come up in my life twice in the last 36 hours. That's so strange. So I assume you live in Connecticut? No, I'm just using it.

Megan 19:02
We are in Southwest Louisiana. Okay, where the hurricanes hit last year that that was me. They they hit me right there.

Scott Benner 19:10
No kidding. How is? So you're not the first person I've spoken to from Louisiana like so how is healthcare there? Like, how was it talked about through your provider? Like, are you like the, like the most well controlled type one in your provider's office? Like, how does that what's the expectation?

Megan 19:30
I don't think I am. But I do know that. Like I said, He gives me a lot of leeway on things that I want to do on my own. Just because he knows that I pay so much attention to stuff. And when I go in, I'm like, Hey, this is what I'm seeing. I think we should change this. And that's not that's if I haven't changed it already. Because I like to let him you know, kind of, obviously give me his expertise on it right. And so we'll talk about that. But my endo is great. He's super smart. And he helps with whatever. But he also will sit there and listen to what I believe we should do rather than just been like, oh, well, you don't have a degree. So you don't know anything. I'm gonna tell you what to do. Okay, which is really, really good. You know, now both my sisters also go to him just because he's helped me so much. And as I said, always open to what I believe.

Scott Benner 20:31
Are you close with your sisters? Yes. Do you guys talk about diabetes visit not come up. Oh, all the time. Okay, all the time. How does that intersect with your, your communication and your relationships? With them?

Megan 20:45
Um, no, it just, I think it makes us closer. Because, you know, if my if I just reinserted my pump, and two hours later, still not doing what I need it to do. And I get aggravated, because I have to put another site and then I can always fix them. And you get the oh my gosh, I hate that. Or, man, that sucks. You know, that type of stuff.

Scott Benner 21:12
But yes, it's right. The camaraderie. It does.

Megan 21:14
Yes, absolutely. I think I wouldn't, I wouldn't be on the weird, I wouldn't be the diabetic I am today without them. That does sound weird. But in the same token, that is true. You know, I know. It sucks. And I can tell them Yeah, it does suck sometimes. But I'm also going to be there when, like our middle sister, she just got on a Dexcom and just got on the same pump that we have, not that long ago. So she's still figuring out the settings and things like that. So, but she can call either one of us and say, Hey, this is what's going on. Or we see because we're all following each other on our Dexcom. So we're like, you know, the middle of the night texture, hey, change your basil, you know, things like that. So it does make it way easier. And that's not even talking about how when your insurance takes forever to get your supplies, and you have to call them and be like, hey, the Dexcom sensor. I'll give you one back whenever I get my supplies. And you know, that's that. That's, that's really cool. I hate that we all have it. But it makes it a lot easier when you can do things like that.

Scott Benner 22:29
So you find yourself sitting around sometimes looking at one of your sister's blood sugars in like kind of a thoughtful way. Like, what I wonder what she should be doing or what's going wrong here, etc. What is she doing? Right? Yes? Do you ever find yourself more interested in their blood sugar than yours? No. Okay, that's a fair

Megan 22:48
No, I. So I just had my second son. He'll be two months old on the 31st graduation. And so thank you, that was a big deal was to make sure that my blood sugar's were where they needed to be because it wasn't just for myself. It was for them. And so when I had my first one, I started paying a lot more attention. And you know, making sure that like I said, my blood sugar's were in the right spot for him, not for me. He was depending on me, and I need to lead them in the right way and get everything on the numbers that they needed to be for him to succeed and be well on his way. And rambunctious little guy just running around with no cares in the world.

Scott Benner 23:38
Well, he's got to ride a horse one day, it sounds like

Megan 23:40
he's been on them.

Scott Benner 23:43
So what did you do during your pregnancy? That that mean? Did you get this success that you were hoping for?

Megan 23:49
I did. Um, so my first one I went to was about 5.0 the whole time. And my second one, it was 4.9. To my OB his son is a type one. And so that's why they kind of over at our Endo, they kind of encouraged us to go see him. And he's also great. And so when I started going there, he's like, Yeah, your blood sugars are pretty good. And then when I went to 4.9, he's like, Well, that's pretty low. I don't know if we want it that bad. Well, no, that's fine. And so then he started saying he's like, Well, high blood sugars cause more birth defects. He's like low blood sugars don't really cause any. Well then my endo was like 4.9 it's too low. We need to get it out. We need to get it up. So I mean, there was that but still, it was pretty stable. First one wasn't.

Scott Benner 24:44
How did you how did you make that happen? What did you just get very aggressive with your insulin? Did you change your diet? Like what did you do?

Megan 24:50
I'm just a lot more aggressive with my insulin and obviously listen to your podcast and knowing about because Like I told you in my email, I've been diabetic for a long time. But I've learned a lot just listening to what other people are saying, or, you know, the episodes that you're doing to help. No, I moved my high alert 120. And I started paying attention to the Pre-Bolus to see when I should actually do it. Just different things like that. Put a lot more effort into and before I was pregnant by a onesie was 6.0 Maybe. So it wasn't like, that was good. I went from eight till to a 4.9. Yeah, you know, so it was still pretty good. But like I said, once, I found out I was pregnant, it was it was actually my Endo, who did the bloodwork and told me that I was for sure pregnant. And so once I found that out, my mindset changed. Like I said that it was for him. And it wasn't just for me, well, you

Scott Benner 26:03
got to keep your body in good shape, you have to have three more kids.

Megan 26:08
I don't know about that. My husband, every time anyone asked him how many kids he wants, he says 12. And I say you can have 12. But I'm not going to wait for that. Yeah, you can find some

Scott Benner 26:20
people maybe to get that. Right. Well, what is he Rockefeller? How much money he got? Who's paid for these

Megan 26:28
kids? Right? I don't know. If he just thinks you know, kids are free labor. I can help them with the cows and all the things we got going on. I really don't know. But he says that anytime anyone asked him?

Scott Benner 26:40
Do you have a farm? You or your husband? Yes, we,

Megan 26:43
we have some, some pastures that are ours. And then we have some lease pastures and Cows and dogs and all the good stuff.

Scott Benner 26:53
Do you make a living with the farm?

Megan 26:56
Um, we, we just have that kind of as a side deal. We do make money off of it. But we also work. Other I mean, we are self employed. So it's not like, we have these nine to five jobs or anything. But we do make part of our part of our living off of it. Yes.

Scott Benner 27:15
That's really excellent. Yeah, tell your husband, you cannot make 12 babies and your is your oldest boy or girl?

Megan 27:22
Boy, they're both boys, boys.

Scott Benner 27:24
But a B. So do you worry about them having I mean, all three of your sisters have diabetes? Do you worry about them having diabetes? Or do you just like? How do you think?

Megan 27:35
Yes, it's obviously always in the back of my mind. So our oldest it was, we were about to have to take him to just a regular checkup. And he was he always wanted water always wanted water. And of course, red flags are coming. And so I tell my doctor, I'm like, you've got to do a blood test on him. I can I have one in my bag. But I don't, I don't know, if I didn't want him. You know, I didn't want to prick his finger. Or if I didn't want to see the results myself. So that terrified me. So she checked it. And she's like, I just want to let you know, it's probably not probably just thirsty, am I? Who knows. But he you know, his blood sugar was fine. But it's like, it's always in the back of my mind, which I know. I've read, you know, the some books about it and things like that. So I know that the female being a type one is the less chance for the children to get it. And then also, since I was over 25, when I was pregnant, then that chance also goes down for them.

Scott Benner 28:48
So there's what did you read? I mean, that's interesting. I've never heard that. So that's really interesting.

Megan 28:52
I thought it was in Jenny's book in Jenny's book

Scott Benner 28:56
is about it. You

Megan 28:58
I'm not don't quote me on that. Because I'm not positive if that was the one that I read it in. Or if it was something else,

Scott Benner 29:05
no, I find out that's that's really interesting. But that.

Megan 29:09
I said, That's what I read. And so it gives you a comment helps me out. Yes. But like I said, it's always in the going to it will always be in the back of my mind which my oldest sister has two kids. Neither one of them are diabetic. My middle sister has a daughter and she's not diabetic either. And so those also help that I'm like, well, they aren't they don't have it. So maybe my voice won't either.

Scott Benner 29:34
Yeah, well, I hope not. So your your sisters have kids as well. Yes, both of them. Okay. How about your brothers? Did your brothers have any children?

Megan 29:43
I'm one of them has he has a daughter and then he has stepped up

Scott Benner 29:47
and there's no diabetes there. Anybody have thyroid issues or anything see?

Megan 29:53
Me and the oldest sister we have some thyroid issues. You know I have to be on the thyroid medication for but other than that it's really not much of anything. I didn't I think my grandma and my uncle had some problems with their liver. My grandma died from cirrhosis of the liver, which was not caused by alcohol. So I mean, other than that, other than that, no. All right, I'm lucky. Yes.

Scott Benner 30:30
You guys are just less than I've started to feel that way sometimes, too. Oh, my gosh, how many things can go wrong with people? You know?

Megan 30:37
Yeah, when I was younger, it used to kind of aggravate me that I was a diabetic and that my brother wasn't. But my mom, you should tell me that, you know. We only got it because we could handle it. And they couldn't. And I was like, You're right. He could not handle this, which is not true. But whenever I was six, that was for sure. The truth? It made me feel better. Yeah. Yes, I could do it. And he can't just couldn't. So that's why he didn't get it.

Scott Benner 31:07
What does that aggravation feel like because I just interviewed a 14 year old yesterday. And I asked him if he was bothered, that his siblings didn't have and he said, No, it didn't matter to him. But what was it just like when it got frustrating? You're like, Well, why is this happening to me and not everybody else?

Megan 31:23
Yes, um, it was probably mainly. So when I got my first insulin pump. It was a summer going into my fifth grade year. And that's when they were pretty new. And the cannula was, I don't know, it felt like five inches, it obviously wasn't but, and then also went in at an angle. And I was very tiny. And so every time I would go in and would like, hit a muscle or hit something and bend. Also, we were going to a big rodeo that we'd go to in Colorado Springs in the summer. And I was so sick, because my blood sugar was, you know, the pump wasn't working right, and we couldn't figure it out. And that's pretty much mainly the time that it got. So aggravating was because he could go and have fun and do all the stuff that we do, you know, at that rodeo that we'd go to every year and I literally just had to sit in the camper because my blood sugar was going so crazy. For the most part, it didn't bother me. And I've never gone through this stage where I'm like, I don't want to be a diabetic. So I'm just not going to take care of myself, or middle sister did, she did go through that stage, she now has a glass eye because of it. And so maybe seeing that happen to her made me realize, oh, just because you does you don't want it doesn't mean it goes away. And you still have to take care of yourself to prevent things like that from happening. And so, like I said, I didn't obviously when I was little it was I probably did get aggravated at him. But for the most part, it wasn't too bad. You know, I wasn't just angry that I had the disease. And that may have had a lot of dealings with that my sisters had it also. So if I was mad that I had it, then I had to be mad that they had it also. But they weren't. You know, at that time, they weren't mad about it. So I didn't need to be

Scott Benner 33:36
When did your sister did she? Did she always ignore it? Or was there a spot in her life when

Megan 33:44
there was Yep, a spot not her life. Just a few I don't even know if it was a few years but she just got it got a boyfriend she was you know in are probably 18 or 19 and just didn't just didn't want to take care of it didn't want to be diabetic. And obviously now she regrets it might majorly and she knows that all the issues that she has was her own fault. Pretty much that you know, she did that to herself back in her younger days, but she's doing a lot better now.

Scott Benner 34:22
Yeah, people shouldn't have to pay with an AI to learn a life lesson. You know? It's Yes, I'm sorry. But you say it did value there was value in her struggle for you because you just were like, oh, okay, I can't ignore this. I'm just not going to write. How about your older sister? Is she? How old? How old was your oldest sister when she was diagnosed? You know?

Megan 34:46
She was nine.

Scott Benner 34:47
She was nine. How about the next one? Sorry. And then you were three as well? Yes, yeah. Okay. Do any of you have children? Do any of them have daughters that are older than three?

Unknown Speaker 35:01
Yes. Both of them.

Scott Benner 35:02
Do they have older than nine year olds? Yep. Okay. Okay.

Megan 35:07
The oldest one her daughter's 28. And the other one hers is 20.

Scott Benner 35:14
Do you guys ever consider doing trial net for the kids?

Unknown Speaker 35:18
No, no,

Scott Benner 35:19
we haven't you want to know?

Megan 35:22
I don't know.

Scott Benner 35:24
It's a hard question.

Megan 35:25
I would, right? Yeah, I would psych myself out so many different times, if I'm probably if I knew there was a chance, rather than just trying to live our lives and, you know, be able to enjoy them. And then if it comes up, it comes up. I know how to deal with it. I knew, you know, I know how to live with being the type one and so I could teach them which. Honestly, it will be very different to being the mother of one, rather than being myself. I will probably, I would cry a lot more than I do just for myself,

Scott Benner 36:08
probably beginning to cry about diabetes stuff. Get overwhelming? No, not really anymore. had in the past?

Megan 36:20
Um, yeah, it used to, like I said, when I was in college, it's, it's not like I was a party anymore. I've never had alcohol or drugs ever in my entire life. So it's not like I just got off on, you know, drugs and alcohol and college and my blood sugar went crazy. But I guess it was just late nights and things like that, that would make my blood sugar kind of go a little, little different than they are now. And so then it would, it would be aggravating just that I was always having to do something different to take care of it. Yeah. When the same things weren't working.

Scott Benner 37:00
But no break. Like you didn't have any, like real breakdowns where it just know kind of crushed? No,

Megan 37:05
not really.

Scott Benner 37:09
My question just flew out of my head, that since I've been thinking of this question for 10 minutes, how is it possible that now that I needed, it's not there. It's very disappointing, Meghan. Alright. So while I find my question, can you tell me a little bit about what you've taken out of the podcast, it's been valuable for you.

Megan 37:28
I think the number one thing really is changing your high alert to the 120. Because obviously, it makes so much sense. Now, when you you know, when I heard you say it, you know, change it, change it to 120, because it's going to take you less time, and lessons learned to get it back to where you want it to be, rather than when it alerts you at 150 or 180. And when you said that, I really just wanted to hit myself in the head and be like, go, Hello. Why didn't you think of that?

Scott Benner 38:04
Yeah, that's so cool. That it's such a simple idea, right? But if you don't get high, you won't get high. So just Yeah, rapid before it.

Megan 38:12
Doesn't You're right. And I really think that helped a lot in my pregnancy. Was that it? And one time? I know, my answer, I guess had messed up in the middle of the night. And I didn't wake up to it. I didn't wake up feeling tired or whatever. And when I did wake up, I think my budget was 250. And that, okay, I lied, I bawled my eyes out, like freaked out, because my blood sugar was 250 for, you know, six hours or whatever. And I never took care of it to take care of my baby. And I just instantly knew something was gonna be wrong with them. And I was like, I had high blood sugar. Oh, my goodness. So I talked to my mom, my sisters, and they're like, calm down. It's fine. If your blood sugar wasn't that, you know, it wasn't above 600 for six months, it was it was only a short time, it's not gonna affect anything. Just get it back down and everything will be pretty fine, you know? But at that moment, my husband was working out of town. So I was home alone with our oldest one and it just it was like I was a failure as a mom at that moment because I didn't check in make sure that my blood sugar was not high in the middle of the night while sleeping.

Scott Benner 39:41
Any any. Do you think that might be some like pregnancy hormones to like the reaction?

Megan 39:46
Yeah, probably. Yeah. I cried a lot when I was pregnant and my husband, he's like, what's wrong away? I'm so happy. It doesn't feel like that. Oh, yes, I am. And he's like, okay,

Scott Benner 40:00
If he wants to 10 more times, does he? So I, you know, it's funny, I said, Can you tell me about this? And you were three words into it. And I instantly thought of what I wanted to ask you. And I was like, That's amazing, my stupid brain. But my question I've been dying to know, the whole time is, you kept such an amazing agency during the pregnancy. How has it been afterwards?

Megan 40:24
Um, it was, I think five one went a couple of weeks ago, when I went to my Endo. And then after my other son, it never went above six, I think it was 5.2. Maybe one up to 5.7. Between having the two of them. They're only two years apart. So not even two years apart.

Scott Benner 40:51
You've got a system now like, you know what you're doing.

Megan 40:54
I feel like it's, I've got it down pretty good. But then the way type one is you get I mean, you're like, you're like, I've got it figured out. And then boom, there.

Scott Benner 41:07
Something could change in your body, physiologically, or you know about your exercise routine or stuff like that, but you can still adjust to that. I'm saying I know you don't want to jinx it, but you're doing really well. Like it's Yeah, I feel like it yes, no kidding.

Megan 41:21
I'm proud of it. And my husband, he will take all the credit. Before we I mean, we've been together for seven years. And before we got together, you know, there was just like, oh, yeah, my blood sugar is fine. It's fine. Oh, you're eating a pancake. Oh, good. I'll have a few bites. It's fine. You know, whatever. And he and I used to love pop tarts. That's probably terrible. But I loved Pop Tarts, fried Pop Tarts.

Scott Benner 41:51
Firstly, hold on just a second. You took me by surprise. You said a lot of things that I'm not like accustomed to like with rodeo and stuff like that. But you fry a pop tart.

Megan 42:01
I actually got it at a big rodeo in Canada. in Calgary. Yes, it is a it's a pop tart fried and pancake batter, which is probably the worst thing a diabetic could ever have. Wait, wait,

Scott Benner 42:15
wait, wait. So wait. So I take the pop tart. I dip it in pancake batter, and then I put it in the hot grease? Yes. So it's like a pancake with a pop tart center?

Megan 42:28
Yes, it is absolutely delicious. Yes, it was. Like I said probably the worst thing for diabetic because pop tarts are a bajillion carbs, and sugar.

Scott Benner 42:43
And they hit really hard. They're not even committed to their carb count. They're really tough the Bolus for

Megan 42:48
Yes, yes, they are. And so when he got I guess brave enough to be like, Look, we will have to make some changes here. That's probably when I first started like paying attention a little bit more. Okay, is when he started talking about it.

Scott Benner 43:06
He talked about like, more healthy eating. Yes, he was like,

Megan 43:10
no Pop Tarts. Absolutely not. You cannot have those anymore. And I have not had a pop tart. And I couldn't tell you. I see him at the grocery store. And they look phenomenal.

Scott Benner 43:22
Mega we got a guy just walked by. Yeah, that's good. So two things. A list and Pop Tarts aren't good for anybody. Let's just say that. You know, it just they they make diabetes difficult if you're using insulin for certain, or I guess if you were type two as well, but um, but is he like a better eater? Like has he seemed more healthy? Like it was? Like, are you eating Pop Tarts while he's having brussel sprouts and a piece of chicken or like,

Megan 43:50
did he do he was really a huge fan of honey buns. Um, but he doesn't really, he really doesn't like sweets. He is actually the cook in the family who loves to cook and he cooks really? Well. We try not to tell him because his head gets really big. But he does cook really well. And we're from the South and in Louisiana so we eat rice with like, pretty much every meal. So it's not like he's a healthy either, but I guess he doesn't like sweets for one and then he realized that those are really really bad for me. Like hey, maybe you shouldn't have those. And then he would just like in a loving way want my blood sugar to be the best just so that I would feel better and all this stuff. And so yeah, I do. I do not usually give him the credit but he deserves some of it.

Scott Benner 44:51
Well, I don't want to push you down a road but what's your favorite pop tart?

Megan 44:55
Strawberry,

Unknown Speaker 44:56
strawberry. hotter. That's

Megan 44:57
the one all right

Scott Benner 45:00
Oh, crunchy. So

Megan 45:02
once they fried, so the one I actually had, it gets worse and worse. It was the fried Pop Tart. And then they put like whipped cream on top with Fruity Pebbles. And so it Yeah, it was terrible Canadian. Yes. It's like the festival you know like the huge you have on the rads and all this stuff the Calgary Stampede. And so they had the fried oreos fried ice cream fried butter, and all that fun stuff.

Scott Benner 45:37
Where you butter? Yeah, it's

Megan 45:40
it's weird and ice cream. I don't understand how they do it. I have never tasted either. So um,

Scott Benner 45:46
how would you like the butter hits the it's got to be frozen, right? You put frozen butter into the how the hell do you fry butter? Isn't butter, just grease that hasn't been melted yet?

Megan 45:57
Yeah. It's confusing, but people do it.

Scott Benner 46:00
Probably a wizard living in Canada that figure that out. I have to be honest, I've never had any of the things you've just said. As you're saying them. I don't want them. But I don't like greasy stuff to begin with. Like anything deep, deep fried is not really my speed. But that's, that's really interesting. Okay, so. So you're not having trouble managing your blood sugar's after the pregnancy. Like sometimes people come on and talk about like, I was able to take care of it during pregnancy. But after the baby came, I got so busy and like I kind of forgot about myself. But you're you're staying on top of it.

Megan 46:38
Yes. So this one, um, the first, my first one, my blood sugar would drop and crazy amount. breastfeeding him. So I could it could be 120 When I start feeding him. And by the end of his feed. It's like 60. And so when I went back to my Endo, after I had him or had my second one, we kind of tweak some things. And it hasn't been like that now, the past few days. If it's, you know, my budget or some, you know, fat over Bolus because I'm actually working at a rodeo right now. And so it's there's a lot going on. But if I over Bolus and I'm working and don't finish my food and enough time before the Bolus hits, and it starts going down like one little one little baby piece of chocolate to try to get it up and level out. It just shooting it straight up. So that's something that I need to work on. I don't know what I don't know what could cause that or what settings I need to change because it doesn't make sense. But for the most part, it has been pretty easy for me to to take care of and stay on track. I guess just because I'd still just want to make sure I take care of myself for them. Ya know that they don't deserve me to not take care of myself or to not pay enough attention to be able to take care of myself. So

Scott Benner 48:17
you're a good mom.

Megan 48:19
Thank you. Yeah. And the oldest one Mike said he's, he's rambunctious Hogan, he loves to be on the move. And like Buck Buck with pillows and watch tractors go around in circles for hours. And

Scott Benner 48:34
you don't just release them in the wild. If you have them. Right. You keep them in the house.

Megan 48:38
Yeah, for the most part. He's released a lot.

Scott Benner 48:44
Because I was like, maybe she's just like putting them out in that pasture. And then they're not. Yeah, but

Megan 48:47
yeah, they can take care of themselves. You you refer

Scott Benner 48:51
to the end of breastfeeding is like the end of feeding time. And that was hilarious. I didn't laugh because you were being so genuine when you're talking about that was between tending diabetes and referring to the kids like cattle like for feeding. Like this is how I love this. I love Well,

Megan 49:07
I will tell you, my husband says. So my breastfeeding journey ended at four months with my first one and he says, this one's gonna be better because I was fattened up a little bit more before I had this one. And then you always they always produce milk better on their second one. So when, you know, when they're a heifer and they're pregnant, the milks not that good. But their second one, they produce more milk. So your husband refers to all of us as cattle.

Scott Benner 49:39
You're all just cattle in his mind, just so he took what he knew about how cattle produce milk and explained did that your breastfeeding is gonna go differently because of this.

Megan 49:48
Yes, yes. It's gonna be way better than some. So we'll see.

Scott Benner 49:53
I want to make sure I understand. The first time you were a heifer. Yes. What is the hell? What's the designation for half What does that mean?

Megan 50:01
A heifer is a female calf that has not had a cow yet. Haven't has not had a calf yet. Okay. And so once they have a calf than they are now a cow.

Scott Benner 50:12
Okay. Right. So So you're a heifer if you've never had a baby and your cow once you have had one. Yes. Interest, so your account now so since you're a cow, your milk is gonna be better.

Megan 50:26
Yep. Now as a little fatter, you gotta fattened up before,

Scott Benner 50:31
you gotta make sure he doesn't throw you on a milking machine and try to make money off do you fall asleep? You wake up here and click, click, click Like you're like, Whoa, whoa, hold on. Hold on. What's happening? Yeah, that's a loving thing. Right? For people up north who hear this? Like he's not commenting on your weight. It's literally just

Megan 50:49
No, no, no, as genuine and loving as he can be.

Scott Benner 50:54
That's excellent. If you have more than one calf, you just always a cow. Yes. How do you think it would go? If I referred to my wife as a cow today? Without explaining this conversation? We're not? Well, not Well,

Megan 51:07
I would advise against that.

Scott Benner 51:10
Yeah, I'm not going to do that. I was just wondering what you thought like, what level of lamp do you think would come at my head? If I was like, talking to Megan day, and her husband says you're a cow. Yeah, without context, I think it gets ugly. Yeah, I would definitely die in that conversation. Yeah. Well, does your have your three siblings who have diabetes? Would you call your your management the tightest, or no? Yes. Did they ever ask you about it? Because they can see your CGM? Yes. What do they want to know? Yeah.

Megan 51:46
I'm just on like the changes that need to be made on their settings. You know, like, Hey, can you look and see if my, you know if my correction needs to be changed, or if it's actually my carb ratio that needs to be changed. And so we'll go through stuff like that, and kind of work on figuring figuring it out. Before, we have to call our endo and get his opinion on it.

Scott Benner 52:16
What? Do they listen to the bar? Guest?

Megan 52:21
I think they do some but not as much as I do.

Scott Benner 52:24
Has that ever been your answer? Have you ever been like you should just listen to this? Yes.

Megan 52:29
I've told him multiple times. I'm always

Scott Benner 52:31
trying to understand. By the way, I have to get this thought out of my head before I go down this road. Do you think I could get away with calling the episode Megan as a cow? I couldn't, right? There'd be backlash from many different feminine groups and things like that. I would know probably

Megan 52:45
would I get? Yeah. Okay. So we're not gonna either do that. Or fried.

Scott Benner 52:49
Fried Pop Tarts? Yeah, that's a pretty good one, too. That's a really good one. You might have just done it. Okay. So I'm trying to understand not about your sister specifically. But in general, I was just having this conversation. Actually, before I got on with you, I was having a conversation with one of the people who facilitates one of the ads that I have on the podcast. And I was talking about a thing that I wanted to do to help people and I was looking for funding for it. And we were having a bigger conversation. And during that conversation, I said, it's hard to get, it's hard to do a good thing for people like you, you have to talk them into it sometimes. And they're right. I said to her, I was like, there are times I want to just like grab people and go, Listen, I'm going to do this thing for you. Now. It's going to help you like just accept it. You know what I mean? Like, because sometimes it just, it's not that easy. Like making the information available, isn't enough, sometimes making it accessible and easy to listen to? is not enough. Sometimes Sometimes people I've had people tell me, I don't have time to listen to the podcast. And I'm like, why don't understand you're wasting, in my opinion, so much of your life fighting with diabetes, like just make a few hours here and there. And then you don't have to have that fight anymore when it's over. But it's not that easy to get through to people. And I don't know why. I mean, I haven't given up on trying to figure it out. But it's frustrating.

Megan 54:11
Yeah, I could imagine it is true. Just to give them the information, like you said readily available doesn't always work. It's not enough pushing them to, to try and listen to it. I forever just think harder. Yeah, I

Scott Benner 54:26
forever. Just think of one person who responded to me. I said, Look, you know, I've put a lot of my life and time and effort into creating these episodes here. I think if you just listen through them, your answers are in there plus, way more, you'll just it'll be easier for you and she's like, can't you just explain it to me? Like, well, I mean,

Megan 54:46
I did in all of these episodes.

Scott Benner 54:49
I did already Yeah, it's there. Like just go listen, but too much. And so right. You know, I don't know. Like, I don't want to think that some people are beyond Hold on. Second, I'm sorry. That's a time of year. I don't want to think that people are beyond help, because I think everybody could figure it out. And I do think the information would reach most people. I just I don't know. Like, I mean, it can't be my job to chase people around one at a time. But do you ever feel responsible for your sisters? Do you ever feel that you know something? And why won't they just do it? Or listen? Or does that ever come up to you?

Megan 55:30
Yes, I've actually, for them. And for my OB, I actually, I guess, before I knew you had a list of all the defining diabetes episodes and things like that. And the Pro Tip series, I went through and made a list of them. I was like, Look, you don't have to listen to, you know, like this, like, just, this is about my life. I'm not really gonna teach anyone about anything right here,

Scott Benner 55:57
I think. But okay.

Megan 55:59
But, you know, I'm like, if you at least listen to these. They're teaching you a lot of things that will affect your diabetes and how you manage it and all this stuff. So like, if you're only going to listen to some, then listen to these. Yeah, I agree with that. Which, you know, I don't like said I don't really know how many they have listened to. They, they do have better control of it. Within the last couple of years. I'm not saying that's because I decided that I needed better control over mine. Or what really pushed him to, to understand think about it more. But yeah, nowadays.

Scott Benner 56:43
It's excellent. I am. I agree with you to like, I think the podcast is entertaining. I enjoy it. Like I'm I'm really enjoying talking to you. I think people would really enjoy listening to this. But everybody doesn't want this conversational stuff. Some people really do just want the management stuff, and they want to be gone. And I understand. I think there's a lot to be learned from the conversations. But if you just want to do the management stuff, I get why you would feel that way. But I mean, it's out there it and it's the guy stand behind it that those pro tip episodes that defining diabetes, even like the new variables, that kind of stuff is you're not going to get that kind of information from a doctor. Right? It's just very helpful. So excuse me. I want to make sure is there anything that we haven't talked about that you wanted to I don't want to get through an hour and have missed something? No, why did you want to come up?

Megan 57:41
I feel like now I made my husband sound like a jerk. But he really is he really

Scott Benner 57:47
worried about? Yes, I

Megan 57:49
after I said that. I was like man, people are gonna think why is she married as someone who talks to her about like, she's a cow, but

Scott Benner 57:58
talk to you like you're a cow. He's using colloquialisms? Yeah, they're part of the Yeah,

Megan 58:02
that's what I mean. He does is explaining to me as something that he already knows about. Sounds like me. And maybe I should have said that. But he really is very loving.

Scott Benner 58:14
How I took it. I actually took it like maybe breastfeeding the first time was difficult. And that he was trying to comfort you and tell you that it was probably going to be better this time. Yeah. That was that was it in his own way. Exactly. I thought it was terrific. I took it as loving. And I took it as I mean, I took it as an insight into your life. I didn't take it as like he's some bad guy running around calling you a cow. And I mean, like,

Megan 58:43
why is she still with him?

Scott Benner 58:45
Well, obviously, because you still have to have 10 more of his babies. You can't leave. Yeah. I do think he's wrong about that, by the way.

Megan 58:54
Yeah, yeah, I don't. We're just gonna let him think what he wants to think for now.

Scott Benner 59:02
I think if you get keep that thought in his head, you're gonna start keeping a stick next to the bed that you're going to hit. Like, no, no, no. Like, I'm not having 12 babies.

Unknown Speaker 59:14
Exactly. Babies.

Scott Benner 59:16
I wouldn't want. I wouldn't want to be responsible for 12 oranges. I would be afraid they'd go bad before I could eat them. Yeah. How did your mom now that you guys are older? Do you ever talk to your mom about your diabetes? Does she still worry about it?

Megan 59:34
Yes, yes. Especially since she can see all of our ducks calms. She still does worry about it a lot. I sometimes turn mine off. Because I have a husband that lives in the house with me. So as my blood sugar's go low in the middle of the night, and I don't wake up on my own. He's going to wake me up. Yeah, you know, and so sometimes I don't want my mom to have to know about it, I guess Sure. Because I'm like, I can take care of it. Now, when I'm home alone, then I'll you know, turn it back on for just in case I don't wake up. And they wake up and call me and say, hey, you know, maybe you should check that out. But she still does worry about it a lot. And my dad even he'll wake up in the morning and say, Okay, who was the culprit last night? Who was it? Was it? Yes. He's like, who was it last night that made all this noise.

Scott Benner 1:00:40
But they want to know that it's so Parliament's for safety, but part of it is because it's just ingrained in them right, like worrying about you guys. And, and, and staying on top of it. Yeah, I think I get that. I also understand you wanting to have privacy from it, too. But do you think she understands it at all? Like, does your mom get the whole CGM thing? Is she following along still?

Megan 1:01:07
Yes, yeah, she, when we first got them, you know, we kind of explained a lot of things to her. And just like stuff on your podcast, when I tell her I'm like, oh, you know, this is what I learned. And she does kind of like me just like, oh, well, yeah, that makes a lot of sense to do. You know, to do it that way to catch this or whatever. So she still wants to learn about it. And wants to help us in any way that she can.

Scott Benner 1:01:38
Sweet. That's really nice. Yeah, makes me feel good. She's.

Unknown Speaker 1:01:42
She's a good lady.

Scott Benner 1:01:44
She's not bothered by it either. It just seems no. Yeah. It's really excellent. Well, you seem like a good mom. It seems like you had a good mom. So make sense, right?

Megan 1:01:55
Yeah. I hope I can be half the mom she is. Well,

Scott Benner 1:01:58
I'm sure you will be I'm sure you'll do much better. I'm sure you'll take what you learned from her and, and build on top of it. I'll try to Are you worried that you won't be a good mom?

Megan 1:02:10
Ah, no, not really. I just know how much my mom has done for us. And anytime I have any questions or need anything at all that show for sure. Be there and I plan to be the exact same way for my boys. So I don't I don't think I will be a bad mom. I just want I just have a lot of big shoes to fill.

Scott Benner 1:02:35
You have such high regard for your mom. You think it's it's a you might have difficulty living up to what she's done? Yes. I bet you won't. But that's really sweet. That's excellent. I like you, Megan. This is fun. I think you were wrong about the Strawberry Pop Tarts. But I think otherwise, it's

Megan 1:02:56
like what popular decent person?

Scott Benner 1:02:59
No, I just mean picking strawberry first. I think I would have chosen like what Pop Tart would I go to right now if I was having a pop tart? Brown sugar.

Megan 1:03:11
I mean, when I was younger, it was a hot fudge sundae when I didn't even now. Yeah, now I'm just straight shrub right now. My oldest one, he loves the little NutriGrain bars with the strawberry. So it's basically like a pop tart. It's just a lot better for him than an actual

Scott Benner 1:03:36
healthier pop out. Yes,

Megan 1:03:38
they do. They do have some kind of like, sugar free pop tart. I don't know if it's good or not. And I've thought about ordering it a couple of times. I haven't. But I feel like the NutriGrain bars. Those are pretty. They're still pretty good. And I feel like they're not as terrible for us. So what he does, and we pretend like they're Pop Tarts.

Scott Benner 1:04:06
You guys should basically be eating lettuce at home because when you go to the rodeo, you're going to eat something horrible. You need to bounce. Yes. I think one of the most shocking things you told me is that Canadians are peddling terrible food to people. That's why it's cat is Canada's a big the roadies are big in Canada, right. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder why that is.

Megan 1:04:32
Their big. A lot of places that people don't say they think if you rodeo you're definitely from Texas. Which you know, they honestly that's where most most people in America. They think that's it. You rodeo you're from Texas. They don't understand. I mean like Florida when you think of Florida What do you think of beaches, Disney World? Florida has more horses and cattle and More than any other state. Yeah, people don't understand that. They just don't know

Scott Benner 1:05:05
Florida is a southern state like at its core for sure. Like it's just yeah, it has it just happens to be on a sunny. Just have sunny. Yeah, that's that's 100% certain I think of Florida's like Texas with a beach.

Megan 1:05:21
Yep, that's pretty much it. Yeah.

Scott Benner 1:05:23
Okay. All right. Hey, I just have a last question for you. I'll let you go. What do you do in the rodeo?

Megan 1:05:31
I don't compete anymore. I used to rope. So on a horse, chasing the calf, and rope it, and then my rope breaks off in the calf runs away. Like because he's having a great time.

Scott Benner 1:05:46
Were you any good at it?

Megan 1:05:48
I'm not gonna say I was very good. No, no, my brothers are. My brothers are great. Did

Scott Benner 1:05:53
you enjoy it?

Megan 1:05:55
Yes, I did. Yeah. But now I so now like I said, I'm working on radio right now. Now I work for photographer. So he takes pictures of the rodeo events. And then I go in and take the pictures off of the card that he has put them on. And then I move them into different folders for each person. So that when they come up to look at their pictures, all they have to do is tell us their name. And they can look at every picture we've taken of them the whole time. And so we do this. We come to Perry, Georgia, twice a year, and then we go to just we go to Oklahoma, we go to Texas, Louisiana. We just go all over and do that. So that's that's what we're doing right now.

Scott Benner 1:06:45
Your husband rodeo. Yep, he used

Megan 1:06:47
to ride bulls.

Scott Benner 1:06:48
No kidding. That seems like a crazy thing to me.

Megan 1:06:52
It's pretty crazy. Yes. This whole right side is titanium. And then his bottom left half is titanium all so

Scott Benner 1:07:01
he's got a couple of plates and screws and things going on? Oh, yeah. He's got a lot. Yeah. Yeah, that that sounds like you just said to me, like he climbed on the back of a bear. And then held on to it. Like I just Yeah. But that's, that's fun. It's fun to watch. I'll tell you that much.

Megan 1:07:18
Yep. It's, it's exciting and also terrifying at the same time.

Scott Benner 1:07:23
Yeah, no kidding. All right. Well, I, I really appreciate you coming on and doing this. Thank you very much. Thank you have a good time.

Megan 1:07:32
Yes, did you I was nervous. pretty nervous at first, but then I was just like, oh, well, this is it. This is me. And did you know if it works, it works.

Scott Benner 1:07:45
What? What would you? And I've never asked anybody this before? Do you ever have? Did you have a concern that other people with diabetes wouldn't like your answers about diabetes? Or you didn't think of that?

Megan 1:07:56
Yes. Um, you know that. But I'm a warrior. And I want to please everyone. And so I do. I mean, obviously, I freaked out that I said, my husband talks about me like, he talks about a cow. So that made me think doubt was like, oh, man, I shouldn't say that. So yes, I do worry that people were like, Oh, why she, you know, why is she doing it that way? That's not the right way. She's supposed to do it this way, which, in actuality, we all have our different ways of tending, sorry, tending to it. Sorry.

Scott Benner 1:08:38
You're getting you'll miss attending to diabetes. Again, I would have loved that. Meghan, come on.

Megan 1:08:44
Yes. You know, we all have our different ways to attend to the issues that come up with our disease. And just because the way I tend to mine is not the way that challenge tends to the IRS does not mean that I'm right, or they're right. It just, is what works for us. And

Scott Benner 1:09:04
imagine, imagine if I would have thought that if I would have said no, I don't want to say what I do, because I'd be afraid that people would disagree with it, then none of this would exist.

Megan 1:09:14
Right? I wouldn't have had so much success from now, you know, almost changing the way that I viewed the disease, I guess and took care of it. And I want to have a four point on a one. See when I was pregnant.

Scott Benner 1:09:30
Yeah. Did you name the kid after me?

Megan 1:09:33
I did it. It was one. It was a top runner, but we'll make the

Scott Benner 1:09:40
Hey, people are buying people are getting vanity license plates. That's a juice box on it now. So that's just as good as it may be to me. Yeah, absolutely. I've there's three now. Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. People have gotten box license plates. I did. and ask anybody to do it. They just did it. I'm very, I'm oddly very proud of it. Yes, you should be. I don't know why. But I'm like, I didn't expect when I started a podcast that one day people would be like, you know, I'm going to put the name of this podcast on my license plate made me feel like I have to do it. Like, what if somebody in New Jersey gets it before? I do? Yeah, maybe I have to.

Megan 1:10:21
Yep. Well, I

Scott Benner 1:10:22
thought you did a great job. And I give everything that you shared, I want to be clear that I think if people wouldn't come on and share how they really feel that the podcast would be valueless. So it's not important for people to agree with each other. It's important to hear different ideas. And then you can either say no, I'm good with what I'm doing. Or Wow, she made a good point about that. And no, I, that thing you talked about about setting 120 alarm for your CGM. I believe that in my heart, but I can't say it every day. You know what I mean? Are the podcasts repetitive or boring? Yeah. So you brought it up. So I'm thrilled that you did. Truth is, you set a high alarm at a lower level, you can respond sooner before your blood sugar gets higher, and use a smaller amount of insulin to stop the rise, which makes you less likely to have a low later, that sentence is really important. And I'm glad you brought it up today. So thank you very much.

Megan 1:11:18
Yeah, thank you for teaching it to me.

Scott Benner 1:11:21
Come on. This is something that popped into my head once and I was like that, then I tried it and it worked. And then you know is years later, I had somebody from Dexcom, like a scientist from Dexcom. Come on. And there's an entire they've done an entire study about that in the in the last couple of years, and it just holds true. You set those alarms at a certain spot, you will do better. That's it. So anyway, I am going to go I really appreciate you doing this. Could you hold on one second for me before you hang up? Yep, thank you.

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